Warning
This guide is for Paprika 4, which is currently in beta. Switch to the Paprika 3 guide.
Click in the upper right corner of the recipe screen, or right-click a recipe in the list and choose Edit. The recipe opens in the same form you use to add one.
Shortcut Press Command-E on the recipe screen.
Note
If you close the form with unsaved changes, Paprika shows a Discard Changes confirmation first.
There are several ways to delete a recipe:
From the recipes list:
From the recipe screen:
Shortcut In the condensed list or the photo grid, choose Edit -> Select All or press Command-A to select every recipe in the current list before performing a bulk action.
Note
Deleted recipes will go into the Trash and be displayed in that section of your categories list. To permanently delete the recipe, go to the trash category on the main recipes view and click . To undo the deletion, right-click on the recipe and choose the Undo Delete action. Only recipes go into the trash: all other items (meals, groceries, etc) are deleted immediately when you select them for deletion.
These are the fields that you can enter when you create or edit a recipe:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | The name of the recipe. |
| Difficulty | The difficulty of the recipe, from Easy to Hard. Custom values may also be entered. |
| Servings | The number of servings this recipe makes. |
| Prep Time | The amount of preparation time this recipe requires. |
| Cook Time | The amount of cooking time this recipe requires. |
| Total Time | The total amount of time this recipe requires. Tip Type any time you like, such as overnight, or click the clock button (Choose Time) beside a time field to pick the hours and minutes. |
| Rating | A star rating from 0 to 5 for this recipe. |
| Categories | The categories this recipe belongs to. |
| Source | Where this recipe came from. Grandma, Serious Eats, etc. |
| Source URL | This is an optional field that records the original URL of the recipe if it came from a website. |
| Description | A short introduction of the recipe, displayed above the directions. |
| Notes | Any cooking notes you would like to include with the recipe. Displayed below the directions. |
| Nutrition | Nutrition notes, a Nutrition Facts table, or both. Displayed below the ingredients. See Nutrition. |
| Ingredients | The ingredients required for this recipe. Note Create ingredient headings by ending them with a colon (e.g. Sauce:). |
| Directions | The directions for this recipe. |
| Photos | An optional thumbnail and one or more higher-resolution images. You can select files from the filesystem or from the clipboard. |
You can add formatting and images to the description, ingredients, directions, nutrition and notes fields.
When you click in one of those fields, a row of formatting buttons appears in the field's heading. Hold the pointer over a button to see its name:
Bold, Italic, Heading, Bulleted List, and Numbered List, which format the selected text or lines.Add Link, Add Photo, and Choose Recipe, which insert a website link, a photo, or a link to another recipe.The wand button at the end of the row holds the text cleanup tools for that field, handy for tidying up pasted or clipped text:
Split into Steps, Number Steps, and Remove Leading Bullets.Number Steps and Remove Leading Bullets.Summarize, Split into Steps, and Remove Leading Bullets.The Nutrition heading has less room, so it has a single Format menu (the Aa button) instead, holding the same commands and Remove Leading Bullets. It appears while the nutrition box shows Text. The recipe form beside the browser and the scanned photos also uses a Format menu for each field in place of the row.
The same commands appear when you right-click the text. You can also press Cmd-B for bold, Cmd-I for italics, and Cmd-K to add a link.
Note
Split into Steps and Summarize use Apple Intelligence, and only appear on a Mac where it is available.
If you prefer to type the formatting yourself, you can hide the formatting buttons with the Show Text Formatting Buttons setting in the Settings panel. Right-clicking and the keyboard shortcuts still work.
Note
When you press Enter at the end of a list item, Paprika automatically continues the list on the next line. Press Enter on an empty list item to end the list.
Paprika uses a modified form of Markdown for formatting:
| Format | Syntax | Instructions |
|---|---|---|
| Bold | **bold** or __bold__ |
Surround words with two asterisks or two underscores. |
| Italic | *italics* or _italics_ |
Surround words with one asterisk or one underscore. |
| Links | [Google](https://www.google.com) |
Put the title in brackets and the URL in parentheses. Only the title is displayed. |
| Photos | [photo:Mixing the Batter] |
Put the name of one of the recipe's photos in brackets, after photo:. A thumbnail is displayed; click it to see the full size image in the photo gallery. |
| Recipes | [recipe:Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta] |
Put the name of another recipe in brackets, after recipe:. Click the link to open that recipe. |
| Headings | # Sauce |
Start a line with # and a space. Use ## to ###### for smaller headings. |
| Unordered List | - Preheat the oven |
Start each line with a dash and a space. |
| Ordered List | 1. Preheat the oven |
Start each line with a number, a period and a space. |
A heading or a list has to start its own paragraph: leave a blank line before it when it follows other text.
The link button in the toolbar opens a dialog where you can enter the title and URL without typing the syntax yourself. Photo embeds work in the directions as well, so you can illustrate individual steps.
Paprika looks up photos and recipes based on name; if multiple recipes exist with the same name, a picker will appear when you click the link and allow you to choose the recipe. If multiple photos exist with the same name, the first will be selected. If the recipe or photo name changes, links will need to be updated.
Shortcut Keyboard shortcuts work while editing: Command-B for bold, Command-I for italics, and Command-K to add a link. They're also in the Edit menu as Bold, Italic, and Add Link. Headings and lists have no keyboard shortcut.
You can add multiple photos to a recipe. Each photo can be up to 20 MB in size, and photos are synced with your cloud data. When you save the recipe, Paprika scales larger photos down to 3096 pixels on their longest side.
From the edit recipe form, click the photo thumbnail to open the Photos sheet, which lists all photos associated with the recipe. To add a photo, click the button. The Add Photos sheet offers four sources:
You can also drag photos in from other apps.
Each photo displays its name, file size, and pixel dimensions below the thumbnailed image, along with an action menu where you can delete the photo or set it as the current thumbnail. To delete several photos at once, select them in the list and delete them together.
The photo name is used to identify the photo when embedding it in text, and will also be displayed at the top of the photo gallery. To rename a photo, choose Edit Photo from its action menu.
The thumbnail does not need to be one of the associated photos in the gallery. Deleting the thumbnail will not affect existing recipe photos, and you can use any photo's action menu to make it the new thumbnail.
Drag to reorder photos and change their position in the photo gallery.
Note
Photos will be uploaded to the cloud immediately but downloaded on demand by other devices (to save space). Photos associated with a recipe are downloaded when that recipe is opened. You can also download an individual photo to your Mac by choosing Download from the photo's action menu, which offers it while the photo hasn't been downloaded yet.